Originally posted by Adelphean1851 Sorry to crash your forum ladies but I was curious, what exactly is a quatrefoil? is it an architectual convention er what? ya'll defiantely have one of the most original badge shapes out there.

our badge is a quatrefoil!

claire, i can not believe that we didn't mention that the chapel at muhlenberg has a quatrefoil! we usually have inititation there.

Originally posted by orchid2 I was shopping in an outdoor mall in Birmingham, and noticed one of the fountains was quatrefoil-shaped. (There are several lion sculptures that sit in another fountain at the same mall!)

There are quite a few quatrefoil fountains at the Summit Everytime I pass them (which is often) I always think about Phi Mu

I guess I must be completely unobservant because I've never noticed the lion statue in the fountain. I have some errands to run there this weekend...I'll have to take note!

I was in my boyfriend's grandparent's house over Spring Break a few weeks ago and looked up and his grandmother had two wooden tray's BOTH in the shape of a quatrafoil hanging on the wall! I got all excited when we left, telling him about it. He just thought I was crazy though

did you want a link to how the quatrefoil looks, or how the street chalk drawings look 3D? ;-)

The quatrefoil is in so many churches in Europe because it represents four circles overlapping symbolizing the four gospels, and the four points are liek a compass spreading the four gospels in the four directions, to spread Christianity throughout the world.

The four gospels/compass aspect is interesting. Merriam-Webster online doesn't mention it, so it must be (almost) exclusively European in that regard.

Main Entry: qua·tre·foil
Pronunciation: 'ka-t&r-"foil, 'ka-tr&-
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English quaterfoil set of four leaves, from Middle French quatre + Middle English -foil (as in trefoil)
1 : a conventionalized representation of a flower with four petals or of a leaf with four leaflets
2 : a 4-lobed foliation in architecture

WOW, just freaky!!!
How did that guy get those pictures to look so 3D?!?!
This is going to drive me nuts!!!

OHHH I see this pinkish house everyday on my way to work, it has a quatrafoil on its point above the large bay window..and in the middle is a lions head coming out... i always wonder if a phi mu lives there!!
LOL